if it's an even steven contest, you know it that something really did change. president obama still has a three to five-point lead in ohio. you know there was a temporary blip but not a huge change in the fundamentals. >> what you write or your team writes, you say possibly the race has not changed but simply tightened and is back to where everyone thought it had be six months ago. >> that's right. tamron, the biggest thing -- we can talk about poll numbers going up and down. psychologically the debate gave team romney aa big boost right before the debate. on october 2nd the day before everyone was writing do you write off ohio? do republicans start to move their money to senate and house contests? that very good debate performance by romney changed that conversation at the very least where we're not talking about this being a run-away race for obama, this being actually a very, very close race again. >> mark murray, thank you very much. greatly appreciate it. coming up, love, marriage and fists flying. we'll get the latest on this unbelievable wedding brawl th